Eden: An AA McCay Novel

by Carleton Prince

Los Angeles. City of Angels. City of dreams. Everything is available, but nothing is free. Photojournalist Adam Alexander McCay returns to Los Angeles, the location of his previous self-destruction as an advertising photographer. While on assignment to photograph an exclusive club on Sunset called 77, he meets a would-be actress named Ingrid Nordmeyer. He takes publicity photos of her as a favor to any old friend, Julius Epstein, who is now a movie producer. Ingrid is found dead the next day. And Adam was the last person to see her alive. And the LAPD detective assigned to the case turns out to be married to the movie star Bellamie Landower, who has a deep and secret connection both to Adam and to Julius. Adam sees his past rapidly becoming present again, his life of thirty years ago coming back to haunt him, the conflicts unresolved. Which is only made worse when he meets up with the assistant to the owner of 77, a woman named Portia D’Ambrosio, who is also pursuing a PhD in the philosophy of physics at UCLA, intrigued by the perceptual conundrums of quantum theory. The two form a unique bond in both solving the mystery and exploring the deeper complexities of reality itself.

485 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 30, 2018

About the author

Carleton Prince was an advertising copywriter, creative director, and agency president before working in executive management in the mortgage banking and financial services industries. He studied physics and film at UCLA, earned a BA in philosophy at UC Berkeley, and worked on an MA in film at San Francisco State. He has two grown daughters, one in Los Angeles and one in San Francisco, and lives with his wife in Surprise, Arizona.

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